Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Vengeful by V.E. Schwab

49 reviews

wonderstrucked's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Death

nebulasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Gun violence, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Violence

dododenise's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I really liked this book. It was a great continuation of vicious and added a lot more interesting aspects.

The story was beautifully crafted. It created lot’s of loose threads, sending you into different times and to different characters. Slowly the story comes together. It should be complicated. It should have confused me. But somehow the complexities of the story were threaded together so elegantly, it barely was any effort. 
I like how at first you don’t even know what the plot of the book will be and it’s just about creating the story for these characters. 

Loved June as an addition to the story. However, I wasn’t a fan of Marcella. I didn’t like reading from her perspective and had to drag myself through those bits. She just falls flat in contrast to the other amazing characters. 

I wished for more Eli and Victor together. I know logically, that would’ve been really difficult to do. But those two together are so much fun to read. 

Overall a really great book. Beautifully written, wonderful characters and interesting story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Blood, Violence, Gun violence, Gore, Murder, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Animal death

Moderate: Car accident, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Rape

bookthief404's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Incredible. 
Once again Schwab doesn't disappoint. 
I love the set up of starting from an unknown point and only giving the reader snippets from '3 weeks ago' to 'yesterday afternoon'. I loved putting the pieces together of what the separate characters were doing and seeing it all come together. The anticipation as the time got shorter leading to the climax was really fun to watch unravel. 

The ending was satisfying yet not at all. I like how open-ended Shwab left it. We sympathise with Victor already so we are relieved when he 'wins' (if you can call it that), and yet there isn't really a happy-family happy ending as we were led to hope for. 
This is the kind of thing I love. I wish Sydney and Mitch and even June all the best until I meet them again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, Addiction, Violence, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Physical abuse, Mass/school shootings, Animal death, Alcoholism, Cursing, Blood, Misogyny, and Medical content

nyssbomb's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Animal death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

freyabarton's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

fantastic sequel, had a lot to live up to but didn’t disappoint. I was on the edge of my seat especially towards the end it was INTOXICATING. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

sarah_cameron's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was perfect from start to end! It kept me constantly on the edge of my seat and was such a great follow up to the first book. Can’t recommend highly enough 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Gun violence, Sexism, Torture, Death, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Police brutality, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Stalking, Animal death, Cursing, Vomit, and Car accident

the_othersidewv's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Death, Drug use, Grief, and Racism

meg_elyse's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Gun violence, Drug abuse, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail